Originally Posted by
bigtim6656
I was talking with a friend of mine who is in his 70s. He did some hunting way back when like in the 50s or somewhere around that time. He told me 50 pounds was to much for deer hunting. I told him mine was set at 68 pounds. He told me that high and you get a pass through with little damage. he said if the arrows stays in it moves around while the deer runs doing alot of damage to the organs. I wonder if this could be that back then they used recurves or trad. bows with low weight and did not really deal with pass throughs much.
I have always been told a pass through is the best thing. Two holes twice the bleeding. Am i wrong. Or is he just an old fart who is still in the 50s.
Unless I read your post wrong, this guy has not been hunting in almost 60 years (you said he hunted in the 50's, not his 50s). Somebody that has been outta the game that long and obviously hunted as a teen/twentysomething is hardly someone I would take too seriously as far as hunting wisdom and knowledge goes.
As a side note, it is these older wiser members of society that introduced me to the notion of brush bucking calibers. Afetr some aging on my own it was just common sense that these mythical calibers don't exist.
What I am saying is it is one thing to respect your elders but it is another thing to think that just because the are older and "wiser" everything they say is automatically gospel.